MELROSE PARK, Ill. – Paul Crisostomo, MD, a vascular and endovascular surgeon, has joined Gottlieb Memorial Hospital. Dr. Crisostomo also will serve as assistant professor in the Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy division of the Department of Surgery at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.

Dr. Crisostomo received his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he received a bachelor of science degree in biology and biochemistry and a bachelor of the arts degree in Spanish. He received his medical degree from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and completed a residency in General Surgery as well as a fellowship in Vascular Surgery at Indiana University School of Medicine.

Dr. Crisostomo is a member of the American College of Surgeons, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, Society for Vascular Surgery and the American Venous Forum. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Surgical Research and has a clinical interest in carotid disease, aortic aneurysms, dialysis access, peripheral vascular disease, venous insufficiency and pediatric vascular diseases.

Loyola University Health System (LUHS) is a member of Trinity Health. Based in the western suburbs of Chicago, LUHS is a quaternary care system with a 61-acre main medical center campus, the 36-acre Gottlieb Memorial Hospital campus and more than 30 primary and specialty care facilities in Cook, Will and DuPage counties. The medical center campus is conveniently located in Maywood, 13 miles west of the Chicago Loop and 8 miles east of Oak Brook, Ill. The heart of the medical center campus is a 559-licensed-bed hospital that houses a Level 1 Trauma Center, a Burn Center and the Ronald McDonald® Children's Hospital of Loyola University Medical Center. Also on campus are the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, Loyola Outpatient Center, Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine and Loyola Oral Health Center as well as the LUC Stritch School of Medicine, the LUC Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the Loyola Center for Fitness. Loyola's Gottlieb campus in Melrose Park includes the 255-licensed-bed community hospital, the Professional Office Building housing 150 private practice clinics, the Adult Day Care, the Gottlieb Center for Fitness, Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery and Bariatric Care and the Loyola Cancer Care & Research at the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Center at Melrose Park.